The COVID-19 pandemic and single-use plastic waste in households: A preliminary study

The Coronavirus pandemic promoted an unprecedented change in consumption habits, especially as lockdowns contributed to the increase in online shopping and in delivery services. One of the consequences is the substantial amounts of plastic waste produced, which can undermine the efforts to reduce pl...

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Autores principales: Leal Filho, Walter, Salvia, Amanda Lange, Minhas, Aprajita, Paço, Arminda, Dias-Ferreira, Celia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier B.V. 2021
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8799403/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34175610
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.148571
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Salvia, Amanda Lange
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Dias-Ferreira, Celia
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description The Coronavirus pandemic promoted an unprecedented change in consumption habits, especially as lockdowns contributed to the increase in online shopping and in delivery services. One of the consequences is the substantial amounts of plastic waste produced, which can undermine the efforts to reduce plastic pollution. In this context, this commentary explores, as a preliminary study, the impacts of the Coronavirus pandemic in relation to single-use plastic waste in households by means of an international survey with 202 participants distributed over 41 countries worldwide.
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spelling pubmed-87994032022-01-31 The COVID-19 pandemic and single-use plastic waste in households: A preliminary study Leal Filho, Walter Salvia, Amanda Lange Minhas, Aprajita Paço, Arminda Dias-Ferreira, Celia Sci Total Environ Short Communication The Coronavirus pandemic promoted an unprecedented change in consumption habits, especially as lockdowns contributed to the increase in online shopping and in delivery services. One of the consequences is the substantial amounts of plastic waste produced, which can undermine the efforts to reduce plastic pollution. In this context, this commentary explores, as a preliminary study, the impacts of the Coronavirus pandemic in relation to single-use plastic waste in households by means of an international survey with 202 participants distributed over 41 countries worldwide. Elsevier B.V. 2021-11-01 2021-06-21 /pmc/articles/PMC8799403/ /pubmed/34175610 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.148571 Text en © 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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